LABOR CALENDAR

Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report

Airport Union Caucus: Mon, June 15, 2pm – 3pm
Zoom

Metro Washington Council Delegate Meeting & Election: Mon, June 15, 6:30pm – 8:00pm (Room opens at 5:30p)
AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW, Washington, DC xxxxxx
Must be a current delegate; register here.

Prince William County Labor Caucus: Mon, June 15, 7pm – 8pm
Zoom

Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, June 16, 5pm – 6pm
Zoom

DC LaborFest screening: 13th: Tue, June 16, 7pm – 9pm
via Zoom; RSVP here

Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses here.

Latest DC-area labor news, delivered daily: tell a friend and help build our Union City!

CWA members take stand against racism
In response to the senseless murder of George Floyd and in solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter movement, Communications Workers of America (CWA) members and allies across the globe last Thursday took a stand against racism by stopping work and reflecting for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the length of time Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck leaving him unable to breathe as he and others called out for help. “I am proud of our members for refusing to carry on business as usual while Black people in this country continue to face racism and violence in the workplace, the streets...everywhere,” said CWA President Chris Shelton. “Our fight and the issues we care about do not stop when workers punch out for the day and leave work. CWA members are actively working to dismantle racism and build working-class power through our organizing, representation, political, and movement building work.”
Read more here; more photos here.

2020 MWC elections tonight
Elections for President and for two Board positions will be conducted at the regular Delegates’ Meeting tonight at 6:30PM via Zoom. You must be a current MWC delegate to attend and participate; lists of current delegates are posted here.
Candidates include:
President: Eric Bunn (AFGE); Dyana Forester (UFCW 400)
Board: Greg Bowen (ATU 689); George Hogan (IBEW 26); Mike Spiller (OPEIU 2)
Details on the election and the candidates are posted here.

Today's Labor Quote: Library of Congress Professional Guild’s Executive Board, AFSCME Local 2910

“As legislative branch employees working to preserve our nation’s cultural legacy—and as human beings—we unequivocally pledge ourselves to see, call out, and fight against oppression, racism, and white supremacy in every form, so that these societal evils have no home in our hearts, in our lives, or in our workplace.”

Read more here. photo: retired AFSCME 2910 president Saul Schniderman (left) and Coalition of Labor Union Women president Elise Bryant at the Painters/BLM protest June 8; photo by Chris Garlock.

Today's Labor History

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Painters join Black Lives Matter protests; the history of black police in America; Race and Rebellion
Last week’s show: Labor supports DC Black Lives Matter protests; “Debs In Canton” preview; Revisiting The Battle of Homestead; Voices of exiled Iranian workers.

The Metal Trades Department of what is now the AFL-CIO is founded - 1908

The Congress of Industrial Organizations expels the Fur and Leather Workers union and the American Communications Association for what it describes as communist activities - 1947

Battle of Century City, as police in Los Angeles attack some 500 janitors and their supporters during a peaceful Service Employees International Union demonstration against cleaning contractor ISS. The event generated public outrage that resulted in recognition of the workers' union and spurred the creation of an annual June 15 Justice for Janitors Day – 1990

- David Prosten; photo: Group of striking fur girls at picnic: Shops reopen, but workers remain out (1912)

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